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FLO to provide up to 40,000 public chargers for GM’s Dealer Community Charging Program

Charged

Auto dealerships, which EV advocates have long seen as bottlenecks and bogeymen, could soon be deploying vast numbers of public charging stations. On the heels of the news that Ford’s US dealership network will be installing up to 4,000 DC fast chargers over the next few years, we learn that GM has selected charging provider FLO as the supplier for the automaker’s Dealer Community Charging Program , which will install up to 40,000 public Level 2 EV chargers in local communities across North Amer

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NSW declares first renewable energy zone with offshore wind in plan to replace coal

Renew Economy

NSW formally declares new Hunter renewable zone that has already attracted interest from seven offshore wind projects and 35 big battery proposals. The post NSW declares first renewable energy zone with offshore wind in plan to replace coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Trying Out Phillips 66 & Freewire’s First EV Charging Station

CleanTechnica

On a recent trip across Texas, I found myself needing to get a charge in Houston. I remembered a previous article about Phillips 66 installing their first DC fast charging station at their flagship store … which just happens to be in Houston. Plus, I haven’t charged at a Freewire station before, so it seemed […].

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SolarBotanic Trees — Charging Stations Of The Future?

CleanTechnica

SolarBotanic Trees has reached two milestones in the development of its solar trees. It’s still at the prototype stage, but it is moving closer towards full-scale commercial production. An agreement has been made with experts at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to develop a field prototype for the integrated, scalable, and […].

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Do Electric Vehicles Actually Cut Utility Costs?

CleanTechnica

Does increasing the number of electric vehicles (EVs) on the grid actually result in lower utility costs for all customers? That is just what a recently revised study found. The study shows that EV users are not receiving subsidies from other customers and that, in fact, they are driving prices down. Overall, EV consumers have […].

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Hourly Electric Grid Monitor for USA

CleanTechnica

Our Hourly Electric Grid Monitor provides up-to-the-hour information on electricity demand across the U.S. electric grid. Large-scale, planned or unplanned, events that affect normal routines, ranging from major holidays to the COVID-19 pandemic, can change the pattern of electricity usage in the country. The electric grid monitor is updated every hour with electricity demand for the prior hour.

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Mercedes-Benz eVito Review — 1st Impressions

CleanTechnica

In Europe, vans are essentially what pickup trucks are in the USA. We even had a period with double-cabin trucks with smallish cargo space that were used as private cars, before the SUV/CUV craze made them a better alternative. Not having vans from Audi, BMW, or Porsche, the vans from Mercedes-Benz are the top of […].

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How Pepsi’s Tesla Semis Will Change Hauling

CleanTechnica

Tesla delivered its first batch of Semis to its commercial customer PepsiCo, and beyond being a big deal for the automaker, it represents major changes to come in the hauling industry. The Tesla Semi could help prove to consumers and commercial customers that batteries can support heavy-cargo vehicles over long distances — an important shift […].

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CleanTechnica Tested: The Generac G2000 Portable Power Station

CleanTechnica

Generac dominates the home generator market when it comes to combustion vehicles and in 2019, made a move into the residential energy storage space. This year, Generac is pushing the envelope further with a new line of portable power stations, starting with the 1kWh GB1000 and the 2kWh GB2000. Disclaimer: Generac provided the GB2000 to […].

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Climate Action Makes Strange Bedfellows

CleanTechnica

For ten years, the Liberal (right-leaning) federal government has delayed, obfuscated, and outright ambushed plans to move Australian power generation from reliance on fossil fuels to renewables. In response, many states have done what they can to make the transition without federal help. One of the most prominent has been New South Wales, under the […].

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.